[Sussex] Fedora Core 5 - lossing disk space

Andy Smith andy at lug.org.uk
Tue Jan 30 14:02:16 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:00:16PM -0000, Brendan Whelan wrote:
>    Any suggestions on how I can find what is taking the space?

Find the filesystem that is getting full via df -h

sudo du -xk /that/fs | sort -rn | less

now you see the biggest directories, remembering that each dir's
size accounts for everything within it.

Cheers,
Andy

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